Jeff Block Email & Phone Number

New York, Ny, Us

Worldwide, Oo

• Participate in and contribute to consultative sales efforts with Fortune 100 clients. Specific experience with Healthcare, Insurance, Financial Services and Energy sectors.• Innovated and launched two new cybersecurity products catering to previously unaddressed customer needs in the leading cloud platforms: Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure, Alibaba Cloud, and Oracle Cloud.• Standardized and automated delivery of the new products, resulting in lowered costs and increased margins.• Establish eminence and credibility through conducting pre- and post-sale workshops. • Built and lead high-performing global teams, producing incremental client revenue of greater than $5MM in cloud.• Manage customer enterprise cloud engagements by leading agile cloud solution architectures, integrations, and assessments, and establish trust and eminence in cloud security practices across the Healthcare, Oil, Banking, and Insurance industries.Previous Roles:• As the Azure Cloud Leader Architect, led customer digital transformation projects including strategy, assessment, and operational deployments, collaborating with cross-functional and off-shore resources across all projects, and implemented intelligent automations in the P&C Insurance, Global Banking, FinTech, and Blockchain for Healthcare industries.• As the Azure Cloud Senior Manager, planned and advised on the Firm’s move to the Cloud, developed a series of automations for Subscription, Configuration, and Network deployments, and developed a cloud configuration control application POC.

• Assessed the underlying technical environment within an organization and identified risks and opportunity areas to make recommendations on achieving long-term scalability, reducing operational costs, or better supporting business processes.• Evaluated IT and technical development processes for best practices and levels of maturity, identifying key process issues and risks in the context of an investment thesis while evaluating potential investments for our Private Equity clients.• Formulated projects and strategies to support the client's investment thesis, key risk mitigation, and long-term technology-based initiatives in the form of risk mitigation and post-close projects.• Demonstrated expertise in designing technology solutions through system integration and application development.• Identified potential areas of improvement within the technical infrastructure of an organization, recommending solutions to enhance scalability, reduce operational costs, and better support business processes. Evaluated IT and technical development processes for best practices and maturity levels, identifying key process issues and risks to inform investment decisions for Private Equity clients. Formulated projects and strategies to mitigate risks and support long-term technology-based initiatives, using expertise in system integration and application development to design effective solutions.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

• Participated extensively in pre-transaction due diligence for Private Equity M&A deals, conducting thorough analyses of target companies and assessing their financial and operational health.• Led the successful delivery of post-transaction carve-out integrations, working closely with cross-functional teams to ensure timely and effective integration of acquired assets into the parent organization.• Facilitated decision-maker and stakeholder strategy sessions, leveraging strong communication skills and industry expertise to drive consensus and inform critical business decisions.• Oversaw the conversion of an Enterprise Data Warehouse from Oracle/DataStage to Microsoft SQL Server (2012), leading the project team through design, implementation, and testing phases to ensure a smooth and efficient transition.• Directed the conversion of ingestions and integrations from DataStage to SSIS for disparate data sources, working closely with technical teams to ensure seamless data flow and minimize disruption to business operations.• Created new consulting revenue streams by identifying emerging technologies and leading efforts to develop competencies and effective go-to-market strategies to capitalize on these trends.